OSIRIS RAIN
Osiris Rain
(b-1986) studied extensively in Florence, Italy at the Angel Academy of Art
under
Michael John Angel,
and later with Odd Nerdrum in Stavern,
Norway.In addition he has spent
time with John Seibels
Walker, Steven Assael, and Jacob Collins. He has
studied and copied
paintings at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, The
Louvre, Paris, and the Metropolitan in NYC
amongst others. He has had multiple group
and solo exhibitions in North Carolina, Canada, Italy,
Germany, France,
England, and Norway including the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte,NC.
Collected
internationally, His works hang in numerous private and public collections in
North
America, Europe,
Iceland, and Australia. He is also the founder and instructor of L'ecole de l'Oeil
Ouvert in Charlotte, NC. Rain works exclusively from
the live model, grinds his own pigments,
and creates his own ground in the classical method.
He has been working this way since he was
sixteen.
Education
2007- Master Class
with Steven Assael, The Art Students League of New
York
2005- Apprentice to
Odd Nerdrum, Stavern,
Norway
2004- Independent
Museum Study, Florence, Italy; Rome, Italy; Paris France
2003-04-
Apprenticeship to Zecchi Belle Arte Fresco Program
2003-04- Angel Academy
of Art, Florence, Italy
2002- Northwest
School of the Arts, Charlotte, NC
Collections and
Commissions
- George Whitman,
Shakespeare and Co., Paris, France
- Pinnacle Sotheby’s,
Charlotte, NC
- Chase Manhattan,
New York
- Amy Blumenthal,
Charlotte, NC
- Barlett Tree Co. New York
- Odd Nerdrum, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Covenant
Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC
- Christ Central
Church Murals, Charlotte, NC
- Noda Business
Association, Fresco Design
- Dolce Vita,
Fresco Design, Charlotte, NC
- Moving Poets
Theatre of Dance, Charlotte, NC and Hamburg, Germany
- Imaginon, Charlotte, NC
Professional and
Teaching Experience
2006-present-
Founder/Instructor of School of the Open Eye, Charlotte, NC
2004-present-
Workshops and Classes, United State and Canada
2004- Gallery
Assistant, Beamhouse Gallery, Beamsville,
Ontario
Selected Solo
Exhibitions
-2008 The Crane
Wife, Studio 21 Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
-2008 Osiris Rain,
Sotheby’s, Charlotte, NC
-2007 Sanctuary, Empathinc Gallery,
Charlotte, NC
-2005 Island, The
Art Preserve, Charlotte, NC
-2004 Norge, The Art Preserve, Charlotte, NC
-2003 Drawings,
Studio 31, Florence, Italy
Selected Group
Exhibitions
-2009 Drawings:
Foundations of Fine Art, 16 Patton Gallery, Asheville,
NC
-2009 Contemporary
Selections, 16 Patton Gallery, Asheville, NC
-2009 Artists’
Selections, 16 Patton Gallery, Asheville, NC
-2009 Figuratively
Speaking, The Cabarrus County Courthouse, Concord, NC
-2009 Osiris Rain/
Laura McCarthy, Center of the Earth Studios, Charlotte, NC
-2008 Imaginative Portraits, Royal Birmingham Society of Art, Birmingham,
England.
-2008 Group Show,
Hughes Gallery Charlotte, NC
-2008 The Figure,
Studio 21 Fine Art
-2008 Kitsch Biennial, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich,
Germany
-2007 ARTMiami, International Art Exposition, Miami Beach, FL
-2007 Pews on
Parade, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
-2007 Small Works,
Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-2007 Artzilla, Hart-Wtizen Gallery
Charlotte, NC
-2007 The Painters,
Dialect Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-2007 Invisible
Children, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-2006 Ethos, KunstHaus, Berlin, Germany
-2006 Surprise Surprise! Hart-Witzen Gallery,
Charlotte, NC
-2005 Kitsch
Annual, Stavern, Norway
-2005 Design, Gallerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France
-2004 New Works,
The Beam House Gallery, Beamsville, Ontario
-2003 Rain, McBroom Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-2002 Past And
Present, Mcbroom Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-2001 Guerre, Wrightnow Gallery, Charlotte, NC
-1998 Group Show,
Monroe Public Library, Monroe, NC
Awards,
Recognitions, and Affiliations
- Member,
International Society of Realist Painters
- Member, World
Wide Kitsch
-2005 Odd Nerdrum-Summer Residency Program, Norway
-2004 Artist in Residence, Beamhouse
Gallery, Beamsville, Ontario